Word: darwins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This means that the Allies must hold these crucial points: Singapore, at the doorway to the Indian Ocean and the China Sea; Rangoon, where the road forks to India and China; Java's strong points; Australia's port, Darwin.* Even if Singapore falls, if the others are held, the Allies will still have their precious chance to exhaust the Jap to deny him control of the Pacific and Indian Oceans...
...thousand fresh fighter planes, in immediate operation from Rangoon to Darwin, would give the Allies a better than even chance to buck Japan's thinned and scattered Air Force, to save a minimum number of vital airdromes, to hold the skies until U.S. bombers arrived in effective numbers. Even 500 fighters-approximately one group each at five centers-might do the trick, if they arrived immediately and were quickly followed by more...
...that from bases which the Japanese already control they can bomb most of China, all of Burma, a quarter of India, all of The Netherlands East Indies (including the Allies' present naval headquarters, Surabaya) and a big piece of Australia (including the Allies' likeliest next naval headquarters, Darwin...
...Since Darwin's time violence has sometimes been justified by aggressors and even accepted by their victims as biologically natural, i.e., just and not answerable to unscientific moral scruples. A climax in the misuse of Darwinian ideology was reached by the totalitarians who declared that it justified 1) deliberate brutality, 2) adoption of violence as the final arbiter in the relations among men, classes, states...
...Many of the life-like animal exhibits in the Museum were the work of this Negro's skill, and ever since I first became acquainted with Mr. Gilbert, when I was an undergraduate in Harvard College, he inevitably suggested to my mind the unnamed Negro whom the great Charles Darwin mentions in his "Life and Letters" as having taught him how to stuff animals...